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recurre (c.1136-37)

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recurre (c.1136-37)

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[gdw]

[ FEW: 2/ii,1567a currere; Gdf: 6,683b recorre 1; GdfC: 10,506a recourir; TL: 8,471 recorir; DEAF: corir (recorir); DMF: recourir; TLF: recourir; OED: recur v.; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 2692c recurrere ]

recore, recorre; recourer, recourre; recure;
p.p.? recourgé

The Eccles citation is problematic. Firstly, as a past participle form, recourgé has an unetymological g. While the verb coure¹ has similar formations that would corroborate this deviant past participle form (e.g. infinitival forms courger and courgier), it may be that the Eccles verb has to be read without an accent, as a sbj.pr.3 recourge (where the g is normal). As such, the verb is a literal rendering of Latin recurrat (sbj.pr.3 of recurrere).

Secondly, the sense of the verb is unclear. The Biblical passage (Ecclesiastes 12:6) translates as ‘before the silver chord is snapped or the golden bowl is broken’, where ‘golden bowl deviates from Anglo-Norman bende d’or, the Vulgate’s vitta ‘golden headband’ or the Septuagint’s ανθεμιον (‘little flower’, or ‘purest quality’).

v.n.1to go back, return 2to continue to run
p.p._as_a.?1shrunken back, withdrawn (?)

v.n.

1to go back, return:

( s.xii²; MS: c.1200 ) Li chiefs del livre ço est [...]. La est escrit de moi: [...]. Recurrez la, si voiez qu’il dist iloec: [...] 429.242

2to continue to run:

( c.1136-37; MS: s.xii^ex ) la terre fud departie Par l'esgard de la baronie. Si cum l'eve curt de Tamise Unt esgardet dreite devise lawfu dividing E des le liu, u ele surt, Tresque Fosse; iloc recurt E alt tut dreit tresqu'al chemin Que fist faire li reis Belin 4368

recurre a

1to go back, return to:

( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv¹ ) Ne quid ke nul de nus recurt Jamais al pais dunt eissimes. Folie fu ke ça venimes! 3822

( 1281-82 ) graunt despit fust fet pus a mey [...], kar povere gens de Neuport ke viendront a mey a Waleden pur le salu de lur almes, il les pristrent e les encharretrent e les reintrent, e les firent jurer ke il ne recurreint mes a mey [...] i 185

( 1375 ) ad estee touché et advisé, [...] que, pur cause de ceo que les choses touchent le duc de Bretaigne, le dit duc vigne au traitié de la paix a Brugges, ou en Engleterre au Roy, pur taunt que plus prestement en puet recourre a lui, pur les busoignes qui le purront toucher en dite traitié iii 1034

♦(of a stream) to flow back to:

( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 ) Si come tot eve recort A la sorse dunt ele sord [...] 10721

♦literatureto resume, pick up again:

( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) Recorums a la geste, repernums la lesçon A parler des Engleys sanz fere mixtion 409.2096

2to have recourse to, rely on:

( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii² ) A sa mecine est recurue, Si ad fine sancté reçue 6542

( s.xii²; MS: c.1200 ) aprenduns a maintenir et a recurre sovent a l’aiude et al confort des orisuns 258.941-42

( c.1230; MS: s.xiii^m ) A li recurt cum a funtainne Kar de sucurs est bien certeine 2737

( c.1240; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) E si par ces espermenz nen est li malade delivré, si recurez a cirurgie i 68.xv

recurre a (+inf)

1to return to, resume:

( c.1378; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Hayne, que son coroucer Au jour de Pasques fait descendre (l. destendre?) Et laist le al huiss du saint moster, E quant revient puis del autier, Tantost recourt al ire extendre 4464

recurre a la main de

1lawto return into the possession of:

( 1319 ) seit acordé que la garde recorge a la meyn le Roi 10.7

recurre a sei (etc.) mesme

1to turn to oneself, withdraw:

( MS: s.xiii^ex ) Kar por ceo estes vos sevrez del secle, ke vous peusez meuz restreindre vostre veu[e] e vostre launge e vos autre sen[s] e ke en tele manere peusez recore (var. (P: s.xiii^m-2) retorner; (D: s.xiii²) recoverer) a vos meimes e quere dedenz vostre quor quele seit la volenté vostre Segnor en totes choses 108

recurre arere

1(of a stream) to run, flow backwards:

( c.1230; MS: s.xiii^m ) Li russels recurt areire 1384

recurre sure a

1to return to, affect once more:

( s.xiiiⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiii^m ) Ensement, qui entret a fole femme, a un ure se refreidist. Aprés, lui recurt sure la folie plus ardante que devant 1219

p.p._as_a.?

1shrunken back, withdrawn (?):

( MS: s.xiv² ) einz qe la corde d'argent soit rumpue et la bende d'or recourgé (var. (B: s.xiv²) descourgee) (Latin: antequam rumpatur funis argenteus et recurrat vitta aurea) et le pot taye soit defoulé sur la fountaigne (A) 199rb

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